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Assignment 3-2

Source: Pages 93 & 94 in your online textbook and refer to your river boat tour notes
Directions: Answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. Read the If YOU were there section. How do you feel about working for the pharaoh?
I wouldn't like working for the pharaoh because i would rather work by myself than work for the pharaoh. The pharaoh might give too much work to do so i would rather just work by myself.
2. Eventually the Third Dynasty began in ancient Egypt. The Third Dynasty was the beginning of what historians call ............. . When did it start and end?
The Old Kingdom. It started at 2700 BCE and ended at 2200 BCE.
3. Explain how ancient Egyptians felt about their country and their pharaoh.
They thought Egypt belonged to the gods and the pharaoh came to help the gods. He had power over all land and people in Egypt.
4. What were the responsibilities of the pharaoh?
He had to prevent war and make trade profitable. Also he got blamed if the crops did not grow well or if disease struck.
5. What is best known about the famous pharaoh, Khufu? Can you name a specific monument built for him?
He was cruel but the people that worked for him wer well fed. The Pyramid of Khufu.
6.a Clearly explain the structure of society in the Old Kingdom. (Note: This should be a long answer.)
At the top is the pharoh. Right below is the high classes. These people include nobles, priests, and officials. Next is the middle class. The people here were scribes and craftspeople. Then there is the lower class. The people here are farmers, slaves, and servants. Most people are farmers. Also 80% of the people of Egypt are in the lower class.
6.b. What may be some advantages and disadvantages of such a large segment of the population being farmers, servants, and slaves?
An advantage could be that there are a lot of them so then they could don't have to be lonely. A disadvantage could be that there could be a mistake with someone because there are so many of them.
6.c. What did farmers do during flood season?
They worked on the pharaoh's building projects.
7. Clearly explain trading in ancient Egypt (what was traded and who they traded with).
They traded with neighbors. They traded gold, copper, ivory, slaves, and stone.
8. Define the word acquire. Use acquire in an original sentence.
Acquire means to buy or obtain for oneself. I acquired some candy.
9. Using the drawing of Egyptian society on page 94, explain where Viziers would be placed?
They would be placed right under the pharoh.

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Assignment 3-1

Sources:

Carefully read your online textbook pages 88 and 89. (Note: Make sure you scroll down on page 89 to see more information.)
Use the map above, the maps in the Egypt Resources wiki page, or your Scribble Map search function

Directions:

Your task is to label a map of the Nile River and ancient Egypt on your current Scribble Map. You must mark, label, or represent famous sites, cities, and other objects. Label everything carefully. (Note: Mark means use a marker, label means use a text label, represent means draw a symbol to show the item.)
You must also provide an image and a description for some of the labels. Each description must be at least three sentences long and must be clear, detailed, and specific. Your description should give us clear information to help us understand the item or place and why it was so important for ancient Egyptians.

1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract.2. Label the Red Sea.3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry.4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), the Bahriya Oasis and the Farafra oasis (include palm trees). Provide an image and a description for each historic site.5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Giza, Hermopolis, Memphis, Bubastis, Rosetta, Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta (include animals found here), the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Include animals of the desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.

Assignment 2-8

Source: Read pages 76 and 77 in your online textbookDirections: Review Pages 76-77 and choose one of the groups below. Research the group you have chosen (two links are provided for each already) and complete The Characteristics of Civilization Chart for the civilization you have chosen. Write clear and detailed answers in the chart, on your wiki page.

Characteristics of Civilization

Civilization Name:Assyrians

Six Characteristics of Civilization	Evidence for Characteristic	Explanation
1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of society.	Tukulti-Ninurta	Tukulti-Ninurta controled Assyria because he is the leader of the Assyrians.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.	They had an irrigation system.	They can farm, so they would have a regular food supply.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.	Jobs like soldiers, metal workers, and statue makers.	Soldiers need someone to make weapons for them and they are metal workers or black smiths. They are jobs.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.	Tukulti-Ninurta and his people	Tukulti-Ninurta was a higher status than the other people of the empire because Tukulti-Ninurta is the leader.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.	Artwork	There were pieces of artwork that were left of the Assyrian King or the prisoners of war taken by the Assyrians.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.

Was it difficult to find evidence for the culture you picked? Why or why not?It wasn't very hard because the answers were right on the articles.

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Assyrians

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/assyrians.htm http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/egypt/a/assyriaintro.htm

Hittites

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/HITTITES.HTM http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/hittites.htm

Chaldeans

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/middle_east/nebuchadnezzar.html http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/CHALDEAN.HTM

Assignment 2-7

Source: Read pages 74 and 75 in your online textbookDirections: Read the questions/directions carefully and write clear and detailed answers on your wiki page.1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King?They should be punished equally because everyone should be treated the same.2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE?Ur got destroyed and lay in ruins.3. Where was Babylon located?Near the Euphrates River which is now Baghdad, Iraq.4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king?Hammurabi became the kin of Babylon in 1792 B.C.5. What is a monarch?A system of government that has a king or queen.6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire?The Babylonian Empire.7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have?He oversaw many building and irrigation projects and improved Babylon’s tax collection system to help pay for them.8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover?Hammurabi's Code is the first written law and there were laws on everything from trade, loans, and theft to marriage, injury, and murder.9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important.One reason is that if there were no laws, then the empire would be a disaster. The other reason is because if he didn't write the laws, then there might have been no laws today.10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire?The Babylon Empire came to an end after Hammurabi died. This is similar to the Akkadian Empire because after Sargon died, the Akkadian Empire came to an end.11. Read the different laws in the Code of Hammurabi on this site and choose three that you think are interesting. Copy the three laws and their numbers onto your page. Then for each law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law.282. If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.This is interesting because if you just say this to your master once than your ear gets cut off. I think this law is bad and cruel13. (There is no 13th Law because, then as now, the number 13 was considered to be an unlucky and evil number.This is interesting because the number 13 is still considered an unlucky number. I think it's really cool.210. If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death.I think this is interesting because the daughter has to die even though she didn't do anything. I think this is a bad law and a cruel law.

Assignment 2-5

Use your online textbook pages 63 & 64 to answer these questions clearly and with details on your wiki page. Make sure to look through the whole page in your textbook and the links for the vocabulary when answering some of the questions.

Where did the Akkadians live?
What was their relationship with the Sumerians like before the 2300s B.C.E.?
Who was Sargon and what did he do?
What did Sargon establish?
Define 'empire'.
Explain two examples why Sargon is considered a great leader.
How long did Sargon rule his empire?
What eventually happened to the Akkadian Empire?
Who eventually became the most powerful civilization in Mesopotamia again?
Using the picture of the City-State of Ur, what can you see in the picture that shows Ur was an advanced city?
Answers
1.They lived along the Tigris and Euphrates River.
2.They lived in peace.
3.He was the emperor of the Akkadians and he conquered northern Mesopotamia.
4.He established the world's first empire.
5.Empire= An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority.
6.He conquered a lot of cities and when he died the country only lasted about a century, so it means he was a good leader.
7.He ruled it for more than 50 years.
8.It got conquered by hosted tribes form the east.
9.Ur became the most powerful civilization.
10.There was a few layers of massive walls and there's a canal in the city.

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Assignment 2-4

Using The Six Characteristics of a Civilization (see below), answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.

1. Is Korea/ the U.S. a civilization according to the six characteristics explained in class? Provide one example from Korea/the U.S. for each characteristic.1.The government of Korea and U.S. controls almost everything in their country. In Korea the Blue House controls all and in the U.S. the White House controls all.2.Some people in the U.S. and Korea have a regular food supply and I don't think that it's gonna suddenly change unless there is a big problem or some change.3.People in Korea or the U.S. have different jobs because it's not like everyone has the same job, but some people don't actually have jobs. But people who do have different jobs.4.Both countries have people at different levels of course because they are both well developed countries, so they need a president or other people to take care of the country.5.Both Korea and the U.S. have a highly developed culture.6.Korea has a lot of buddhist temples so there is a religious system, but the U.S. doesn't have religious temples so they don't have a religious system.2. Does a civilization, in your opinion, need to have all of the characteristics mentioned? Why or why not?They don't have to have all of them because some people might not have a religion and people don't have to do things in the six characteristics, so you don't have to have all characteristics in a civilization.The Six Characteristics of a Civilization:1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.

Assignment 2-3

Please read pages 56-59 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.1. How did the Fertile Crescent get its name?The land is a large arc of rich farmland.2. What was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile?They needed the irrigation systems.3. In what ways did a Division of Labor contribute to the growth of Mesopotamiam civilization?People became crafters, religious leaders, and government workers.4. How might running large projects like the maintaining a large and complex irrigation system prepare people for running a government?Since the government plans everything they have to practice taking care of the things for the plan and make the plan and do every step.

Assignment 2-2

Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the In Class Activity 2-1 called Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System & Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities to help you answer the questions.Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?They carried the water in buckets and put them in their fields.2. How did farmers prevent flooding?They built natural earth walls called levees to prevent flooding.3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please clearly explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers?One way it made life easier was that they didn't have to go get the water every time. Levees prevented water to flood, canals were made to control the direction in which the water flows and dams and reservoirs were made to help block and store water at various places among the river.4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food?Surplus5. What could happen if one canal was clogged?Since all of them are connected to one another, the whole irrigation system would be destroyed of one canal was clogged.6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system?They took care of it by working together to figure out or control the complex irrigation system.Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities1. How did Mesopotamian villages help each other?They worked together to clean the silt from the canals to prevent clogging.2. How were people, who lived very far apart, connected to each other?They were connected by the irrigation canals that wound through the cities.3. What did many villages grow into?They grew to towns and cities.4. What do we call the region in Mesopotamia that had many growing cities and towns? What are the people called that come from this region?The region of growing towns and cities was called Sumer and it's people were called Sumerians.5. How could one city stop the water from reaching another city?They built new canals or blocked other cities' canals.6. Why was it easy to attack other cities on the Mesopotamian plains?It was easy to attack because there was no rivers or mountains to block the enemies way.7. What defense plan is best to protect a city?I think that a big wall is the best because you would have to drill through it or something to get in. There's a door so people can come inside and a train system so people could come. On top of the walls guards would be standing with bows and arrows to get ready for any weird people coming.

Assignment 2-1

Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the Class Activity to help you answer the questions.Event A: Food Shortage1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia?The increased food supply, sturdier shelter and improved technology helped the human population to grow.2. What does cultivate mean?cultivate means to prepare and use for crops or gardening.3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have?The problem was that people did not have enough land on which to grow food because of the increasing of the population.4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why?The best way is to abandon farming and return to hunting and gathering because you already have tons of people and they could go hunt and get a lot of food everyday.Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains?One problem was that the soil was hard and dry for most of the year and the other problem was that the river washed away its plants.2. How did they solve these problems?They controlled the amount of water supply.3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from?They came from the mountains.

Assignment 9

Now that we are finished with the Early Humans unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about Early Humans. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page.1. The single most important thing I learned was...about Australopithecus because that was our early ancestors from a few million years ago.2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was...the puppet show that we presented because it was confusing to find all the characters at the right time and sometimes we got confused if it was our part or not.3. What surprised me the most was...the Catal Huyuk video because there was a lot of interesting things that I thought they didn't do in the stone age.4. I would like to know more about...the tools they used in the stone age because they're really cool and interesting.5. The part that I think I will always remember was...the head smashing part in the Catal Huyuk video because everyone said they liked it, but we skipped it the second time because some people didn't like it. It was okay to me and i wanted to see it, but it's cruel.

Assignment 8

Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.

1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you,One thing is the surgery because surgery is a very complicated way to heal people. One mistake can cause a lot of mistakes. Another thing is medication because people have to figure out how to heal people, but i guess that they already figured it out before. The last thing is about agriculture. It was very smart for people to figure it out. It seemed like it was an accident to discover it and not on purpose in the video.2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class?One thing is that they were trading like people trade right now in companies for work. Another thing is agriculture. People still farm for food, but not as much as before. The last thing is surgery. People do surgery right now, but more advanced ones. People figured out more ways to fix problems in the human body.3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. (Note: Simply saying you have cell phones and she doesn't is an unacceptable answer.)One thing is that i spend my days by going to school. There probably wasn't school at that time because nobody was writing or doing things to learn except talking. Also I play video games to entertain myself. There wasn't video games at that time, but probably other activities to entertain yourself. Also learn to play instruments and play sports. People might not have played instruments at that time, but maybe some kind of sport activity.

Study Guide

Hominids and their Characteristics

Australopithecus- Brain was only one-third the size of modern humans and appeared 4-5 million years ago. Name means "southern ape".Homo Habilis- Brain was half the size of modern humans and appeared 2.4 million years ago. Name means "handy man" and used early stone tools for chopping and scraping.Homo Erectus- Name means "upright man" and lived 2-1.5 million years ago. Learned to control fire and migrated out of Africa. Also used new tools like the hand axHomo Sapien- Name means "wise man" and appeared 200,000 years ago. They are the same species as modern humans and migrated around the world. Developed language and learned to create fire and use a wide variety of tools.

Aspects of Daily life effects notes

People don't have to move for food.People can now have food without hunting.People came up with new tools that are more advanced.food source...?

Vocabulary:

Neolithic: NewPaleolithic: OldHunter- Gatherer: Someone who hunts and gathers food all their life.Australopithecus: Name means southern ape.Homo Habilis: Name means handy man.Homo Erectus: Name means upright man.Homo Sapien: Name means wise man. Time linesDecade is 10 years.Century is 100 years.Millennium is 1000 yearsC or Circa is aboutBCE is before the common era or BC which is before christ.CE is the common era or AD which means Anno Domini

Other notes:

Our world is advancing every second.

Assignment 7

Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.1. What are the four hominids?2. What are the three periods of time in the stone age?3. What kind of tools did people use in the stone age?Answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period?People started to invent new things that are different from before and they started to do things new and come up with new ideas. Also they domesticated the plants and animals and agriculture started in the Neolithic Period.2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period?They didn't have to move for food because they could just domesticate them for more food and they could get an unlimited amount of food as long as they domesticated the plants and animals.3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture?Some advantages are that we could get more food because we know about it more now and we could grow things that are better than before. Some disadvantages are that we can't experience things that happened in the stone age and maybe there could have been plants different from right now..

Assignment 6

Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions clearly and completely. Please put your answers on your wiki page.1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?).It could change my life by not having to search for food as much. I could just keep growing and planting the seeds inside the fruit for eternity. I might have to move some time to search for new soil because the fruits will not be as good as before a few years later.Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:2. What is another name for the New Stone Age?The Neolithic Era.3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for?They made saws and drills. They used them to cut stones, to make weapons or used them to cut up food.4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be?This hominid is Homo-Erectus.5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution?Because people threw away the idea of gathering food and replaced it with growing food.6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'?To tame an animal and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia?They are horses, cattle, goats, and sheep.8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated?It was first domesticated in southern Mexico.9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different.I would grow plants and fruit instead of gathering, I would get more food than them if I wait until the trees grow, and I will have an unlimited supply of food unlike the gatherers that have to move for food.

Assignment 5

Read pages 32-34 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.

Why do historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory?
What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright?
What kind of tools did people use during the Paleolithic Era?
Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language?
Define the boldfaced words above.

Answers1. They need them to do it because we need to know what are ancestors did in the past.2. They use less power because they use two legs instead of four and they could use their two arms that are left to do more things.3. They used a spear and a hand ax.4. A stone tool I would make is a tool for rubbing clothes to wash them. A wooden one would be to take the water out of the clothes by smashing it.5. A hunter gatherer is a person who hunts and gathers wild plants and other things.6. I think the most important change in the development of language is that how they first made the language and made it better and better.7.Prehistory: The period of time before written records.Tools: A device or implement.Paleolithic Era: The early phase of the stone age.Hunter-gatherer: A person who hunts and gathers for a living.

Assignment 4

Please read pages 29 & 30 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found?They are found from Africa2. What is the scientific name of Lucy?It is Australopithecus.3. How long ago did Lucy live?She lived 3 million years ago.4. What was an important step in human development?It was that they were able to stand on two legs.5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.Make sure your answer is clear and detailed.

Australopithecus
It was the first creature to walk on two legs. It came 4-5 million years ago. It's brain is only one-third the size of a regular brain.
Homo habilis
It appeared 2.4 million years ago. It used early stone tools to chop and scrape. It's brain was half the size of our brain.
Homo erectus
It appeared 2-1.5 million years ago. It knew how to control fire and used the hand ax. It migrated from Africa to Asia and Europe.
Homo sapiens
It appeared about 200,000 years ago. It migrated around the world and used a variety of tools. They are the same species as us and developed a language.

6. Which hominid are you?I am a Homo sapien.

Assignment 3

Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project ResponseNote you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See Resources-1Answer the following questions on your wiki page.1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project?I was the board manager and in the play I was a god, god of wisdom, the dragon, and the sea.2. What Problems did your group run into?We couldn't go through the puppet show smoothly.3. How did your group deal with these problems?We just did the puppet show and finished it even if it wasn't smooth.4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories.One was that in all of them a god created the humans and another one is that they all made humans in a different way.5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).The similar things in the origin story from Egypt and China both didn't have fighting in it. Also they were about gods making humans because they wanted someone else to be with them. A difference is that they had different ways of making humans. The China origin story's god made it with her hands and the Egypt one is by spitting, sneezing and crying. Also the gods were amazed when the humans were made.

Assignment 2

Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class.1. What is the first event on the timeline?2. What is the last event on the timeline?3. What event happened after the last Ice Age?4. What is the first event on the timeline in C.E.?5. What event happened at 15,000 B.C.E.?Answers1. Emergence of modern humans2. Color TV invented3. Sewing needles invented4. Paper invented in China5. Cave paintings created in FranceClick here ----->

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Timeline of Human History.pdf to see a copy of the timeline. Write your questions and the answers on your wiki page.

Assignment 1

Using your notes and page 4 from your online textbook, answer the following questions on your wiki page.1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year?2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 12153. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? Type in the content of your page here.Type in the content of your page here.Answers1.CE2.3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 3, AD 476, CE 1215, AD 20003.It means there is no exact date.

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